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• The knife was used incorrectly. Sayid didn't stab the Man in Black correctly and/or he allowed the Man in Black to speak before stabbing him, something expressly forbidden by Dogen.
  • Dogen seemed to confirm Sayid and the Man in Black's version of events by the Temple pool, implying that the knife wasn't meant to work.
• The knife has some other purpose, tied to Dogen, that Sayid will discover later on, allowing him to escape the grasp of the Man in Black.
• The knife was merely something he happened to have laying around. If it was integral to killing the MIB, it would have been treated with more care than being left to one side, unguarded.
  • Agreed. Dogen made no effort to pick it up or protect it when Sayid just dropped it casually on the ground. Dogen just had a knife hidden away for a time when a knife would come in handy.